What he said.  Truth!  Word!

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:20 -0800, Sebastian Smith wrote:
> > Ah, now there's a distinct possibility.  If the DVD drive is on the same
> > cable as one of the HDDs, You need to look on the dvd drive in back and
> > re-jumper it to a slave.  If the jumper directions are not on the drive
> > or (enclosed) documentation, you should be able to find them on the web.
> >
> > Alternately, you can put the dvd drive on the second channel cable all
> > by itself.
> 
> If you have a free channel you should plug the device into it.  The result 
> will be faster burn speeds.
> 
> > Either way, when you have it hooked up correctly, you'll be able to
> > verify by going into cmos before booting into the os, if the bios sees
> > it, then the os should also recognize it and load the necessary drivers
> > etc.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 20:14 -0800, Brian Chrisman wrote:
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, I finally got my NEC 3550A DVD burner from !%$#%@ Newegg.  I 
> >>> connected it up and neither Linux nor Windows could see it.  I couldn't 
> >>> even boot off the old CD burner until I disconnected the new drive.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Is it IDE?  might be a master/slave setting thing?
> >>
> >>> Jennifer
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